PR for Humans

How business leaders tell powerful stories

Mike Sergeant

Discover the essential principles of leadership communication. In PR for Humans, Mike Sergeant shows CEOs, partners and business leaders how to use these principles for high-impact speeches, media interviews, videos and blogs. He challenges the global PR industry to move beyond spreadsheets and ‘strategies’ and embrace more powerful human storytelling.

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Available for preorder: this book will be shipped on its publication date of April 18, 2019

“There is no strategy without a story. There is no story without the main character. The main character is you.”

PR for Humans is for pure-of-heart storytellers who want to cut through the noise and the nonsense. It brings together the essential and timeless principles of effective leadership communication.

Belief. Clarity. Opinion. Energy. Context. Time. Humility. Imagery.

Why are these things so important? Why do most people in PR and ‘communications’ not even talk about them? Why is PR for Humans even more important in the age of A.I.?

In this fresh and energetic guide, former BBC correspondent Mike Sergeant draws on twenty years of frontline experience to reveal the secrets that every CEO, partner, board member, PR director and business leader needs to know.

The principles and techniques he sets out in this book will help you deliver more powerful speeches, presentations, media interviews, videos, podcasts and blogs.

They are the rocket fuel for your business and your career.

Mike Sergeant is an international communications coach and PR adviser to CEOs and business leaders. Through his company www.sergeantleaders.com he delivers media training, public speaking coaching and reputation advice. Mike began his career at CNN in 1996 before moving to Reuters, Sky News and the BBC – where he spent 13 years as a TV and radio correspondent covering business, politics and the Middle East. He lives in North London with his wife and two sons.